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  • Thread starter Magwitch
  • Start date Mar 8, 2020
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Magwitch

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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In these times of talk of new sites being found and prospect of a“new” ground (don’t laugh) I looked at the Portman Road stadium, very much like the old HR design for me a proper football ground, four sided separate stands and a surprising capacity of just over 30000. Doesn’t seem to take the room of the modern bowl shaped type. Is this the type of stadium design for us and where in Cov is there a suitable site ?
 
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Deleted member 2477

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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Cant beat the old style ground for atmosphere but going back to your question it should say where could we build a new stadium without the help of Coventry Council
 

pusbccfc

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #3
Best ground in League 1 without doubt.
One of the best in the country really. In the town. Plenty pubs. Next to the station. Compact.

Even the old fashioned away end was fine. Better facilities than some new stadia.
 
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Adge

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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pusbccfc said:
Best ground in League 1 without doubt.
One of the best in the country really. In the town. Plenty pubs. Next to the station. Compact.

Even the old fashioned away end was fine. Better facilities than some new stadia.
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Really? Better than MK? Better than Rotherham?
 

harvey098

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #5
pusbccfc said:
Best ground in League 1 without doubt.
One of the best in the country really. In the town. Plenty pubs. Next to the station. Compact.

Even the old fashioned away end was fine. Better facilities than some new stadia.
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True, their toilets really let them down though, in a really bad state.
 

pusbccfc

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #6
Adge said:
Really? Better than MK? Better than Rotherham?
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'Some'.

Definitely not MK or Rotherham, but not much worse than the smaller flat pack type. Took a lot less time to get a drink before the game than most stadia.
 

kg82

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #7
harvey098 said:
True, their toilets really let them down though, in a really bad state.
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Before or after our fans trashed them?
 

ccfctommy

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #8
Adge said:
Really? Better than MK? Better than Rotherham?
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Yep
 
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David O'Day

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #9
This the issue with cities away ticketing g sales. Too many Nigels any up with tickets.
 

Gynnsthetonic

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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David O'Day said:
This the issue with cities away ticketing g sales. Too many Nigels any up with tickets.
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Am I still pissed or does this not make sense!
 
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theferret

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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pusbccfc said:
'Some'.

Definitely not MK or Rotherham, but not much worse than the smaller flat pack type. Took a lot less time to get a drink before the game than most stadia.
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Maybe not better in terms of facilities than those two, but a better ground? Absolutely. Give me that over that travesty in MK any day.
 
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The Reverend Skyblue

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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Like most have said, Portman Road is a big classic four sided ground. I love grounds like these and everyday are they better than the bland bowls like the Ricoh, MK, riverside and Walkers etc.
Great location too, in centre and five minutes from station, l love everything about it, even have friendly fans on top.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #13
ccfctommy said:
Yep
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Thought Rotherham was awful tbh and MK isn't anything to write home about, concourse pretty dingy.
 
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Magwitch

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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I did ask where in Cov is there a suitable location for a similar sized ground. ? According to recent reports six have been identified, any ideas ?
 

Evo1883

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #15
I really liked their stadium, reminded me of a mini goodison Park somewhat
 
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ccfcway

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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David O'Day said:
This the issue with cities away ticketing g sales. Too many Nigels any up with tickets.
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It comes to something when you have a spend more time concentrating and rereading your post than I normally do with a cc4l one.

I wasn’t aware that the name “Nigel” was as popular amongst cov fans than “Jordan” is amongst the players
 
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David O'Day

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #17
ccfcway said:
It comes to something when you have a spend more time concentrating and rereading your post than I normally do with a cc4l one.

I wasn’t aware that the name “Nigel” was as popular amongst cov fans than “Jordan” is amongst the players
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Sorry, I'll repeat myself for the peanut gallery. The problem with coventry city and how they sell the tickets to away games is too many folk who in another life would be train spotters get tickets.

You be good now nige
 
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Deleted member 2477

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #18
Would love an old fashioned stadium like Highfield Rd the hawthorns or bramall lane be built on the ikea site. Nice and central, good transport and parking along with numerous pubs and food nearby. There is only two things stopping it. Money and the council but would be the perfect site and put a nail in the coffin of the wasps nest
 
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steve cooper

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #19
harvey098 said:
True, their toilets really let them down though, in a really bad state.
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Didn't we smash them up?
 

shmmeee

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #20
I did a cut out of the Shrewsbury ground and overlaid it on Ikea and I reckon it’d fit.

Good transport though? I shudder to think what the ring road would be like. You’d need some solid Park and Rides around the edges of the city and a concerted effort to get people to go by train/bus I reckon. Not at all insurmountable though. You’d have to build parking underneath it I reckon, which I’d guess would mean a bowl. Ready made fans village in the SkyDome as well.
 

ccfcmad1

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #21
Proper ground give me that over a fancy bowl any day, (ps any ground will do)
 

Gynnsthetonic

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #22
shmmeee said:
I did a cut out of the Shrewsbury ground and overlaid it on Ikea and I reckon it’d fit.

Good transport though? I shudder to think what the ring road would be like. You’d need some solid Park and Rides around the edges of the city and a concerted effort to get people to go by train/bus I reckon. Not at all insurmountable though. You’d have to build parking underneath it I reckon, which I’d guess would mean a bowl. Ready made fans village in the SkyDome as well.
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Can't see it myself but would a great location similar to Newcastle and Millennium Stadium as in Heart of the City. You might know this Shmmeee but who owns land like Central Six, Alvis Retail Park and Coventry Business Park where Go Outdoors located, all good locations for a stadium.
 
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Magwitch

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #23
I have mentioned the bottom end of Hearsall Common before where the fair goes which I don’t think is common land, might be wrong though, but just across the road there’s an industrial estate and there are two quiet large empty warehouses just round the corner, you can’t see just how large but I’m sure with a bit of jigging around there could be.
 

shmmeee

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #24
Gynnsthetonic said:
Can't see it myself but would a great location similar to Newcastle and Millennium Stadium as in Heart of the City. You might know this Shmmeee but who owns land like Central Six, Alvis Retail Park and Coventry Business Park where Go Outdoors located, all good locations for a stadium.
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Central Six: Friargate Joint Venture (Council)
Alvis: Stargas Nominees LTD (??)
Cov Business Park: all kinds of people. Go Outdoors seems to be Nottingham City Council but that’s weird so I’m now gonna double check that when I get to work tomorrow.
 

shmmeee

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #25
Standard plug for www.nimbusmaps.co.uk free account gives you two months access to title boundaries and lifetime access to ownership details. We’re still a startup and can be rough around the edges so be nice but I can double check any data queries.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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Good locations for stadiums, could these not house a stadium either freehold or long lease?
 
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The Great Eastern

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #27
Portman Road is an oddity though. Unless they changed things recently, the land the ground sits on is owned by the local town council and the club owns the stands that sit on that land. Good job for them that they havent got a council that thinks along the lines of CCC.
 
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Johhny Blue

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #28
Magwitch said:
I did ask where in Cov is there a suitable location for a similar sized ground. ? According to recent reports six have been identified, any ideas ?
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Bulldoze the Houses at Highfield rd and start again
 
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Wyken Sky Blue

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  • Mar 8, 2020
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Magwitch said:
I did ask where in Cov is there a suitable location for a similar sized ground. ? According to recent reports six have been identified, any ideas ?
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Could the land by Meggit Aircraft Breaking systems be used (in between Burnaby Rd and Swallow Rd)? Meggit could provide the car parking facility
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #30
skyblue1991 said:
Could the land by Meggit Aircraft Breaking systems be used (in between Burnaby Rd and Swallow Rd)? Meggit could provide the car parking facility
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The cov local plan earmarks such sites for housing, with no reference at all to the necessary increase in local public services. Planning in this country is pathetic
 
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RFC

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  • Mar 8, 2020
  • #31
marcusp said:
Cant beat the old style ground for atmosphere but going back to your question it should say where could we build a new stadium without the help of Coventry Council
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It won’t come through CCC, Ryton is not in their control! Plenty of options on the fringes, do not rule it out.
 
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